... my computer monitor is possessed.  My home PC is a Dell Dimension 4600 that I purchased new 3 years ago and it still runs like a charm.  Only problem I ever had was that about 3 months after buying it, the hard drive turned out to be bad.  They replaced it for me no problem, and the machine has been great since then. 

The past couple of weeks or so, my computer monitor (one of those flat screen ones) doesn't seem to go on whenever I boot up the computer, whenever I press its Power button.  I've never abused it and I've always pressed Power on it to shut the monitor off when shutting the computer down.  It just...doesn't turn on all the time.  I check to make sure that it's plugged in securely and it seems to be.  I have to flip the switch on the power strip that it's plugged into, then turn it back on.  The green glow of the monitor's Power button then flickers, like it can't decide if it wants to go on or not.  After repeating this a few times, then the logo for the monitor finally appears on it, meaning it's now on and I can boot up the computer.

Anyone ever have any problem like this with their monitor? Any advice you could give me? 

In other news I am feeling a lot better today.  I finished up my medication yesterday so hopefully I should be just fine by the time of the NJ con.  Just heard that my elderly neighbor down the street died early this morning.  She had pancreatic cancer that spread very quickly.  It was sad how it hit her so fast. 

What a week it's been.  Computer problems at work, computer problems at work, and even more computer problems at work.  The PC I use went on the fritz a year ago.  It's been pretty stable but it complains whenever I boot it up... "hard drive failure imminent" etc.  But it runs fine.  The boss man had acquired a new hard drive and wanted to install it, but many various things led him to put it off.  Still, computer basically ran okay except for the network acting up every so often. 

The other day, his computer started acting all funky - couldn't access internet, couldn't defragment, no disk cleanup, task bar vanished, antivirus software kaput...  Think he somehow got a virus on there.  We called a tech guy to come in and look at it, which he finally did yesterday.  Found some file that didn't belong there - so I guess it was a virus or some other weird thing.  Took that hard drive out, attached it to my computer so they could back up the files on it, and then he was going to wipe it clean and start over.  We asked while he was at it, if he could install the new hard drive on my PC.  Thought he was going to do that, but fixing the other computer's drive is taking a while, so he may do that this coming week.

Anyhoo... in backing up the contents of my hard drive, Windows Explorer decided to take a siesta and froze up the computer.  I had to shut it down manually.  Twice on two different days I could not back up my data *headdesk* Finally got to do that this morning in anticipation of new drive being installed.

One headache after another, aggravating and almost depressing ... which is why I'm SO glad this week is finally over.  Tomorrow I am going to visit a fellow Hussy from the Daniel/MS thread at GW to watch an interesting looking MS movie... she also picked up two Stargate action figures for me - Sam and Teal'c - and got money off on them, so that's really cool.  It's great having another fan who lives so close by. :)